02-01-2014, 10:58 AM | #61 | |
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02-01-2014, 11:20 AM | #62 |
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02-01-2014, 11:35 AM | #63 | |
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All of that is fine, common, and perfectly legal. Discrimination only becomes an issue when a business or the government favors or disfavors people based on a few prohibited criteria. (Note that in most cases you are free to discriminate against people in your private life even for those reasons. Although it's bad and you should stop.) So a business can discriminate against someone who is unqualified, but not against someone who is black. A restaurant can refuse to serve drunks, but can't refuse to serve women. And a retailer can refuse to sell products to people who won't meet its asking price, but can't refuse to sell to people who have a different religion. (Note that you have a similar right to work for the company that offers you $40k/year and not for the company that offers $20k...even if $20k is all that they can afford and they *really need* your skills.) So, returning to Amazon, it's not inaccurate to say that by charging $120 for AP, they are discriminating against people who can't afford $120. But that is a completely permissible form of discrimination, and no different from their current practice, where they are discriminating against people who can't afford $80 for AP. |
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02-01-2014, 12:12 PM | #64 | |
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02-01-2014, 12:18 PM | #65 | |
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02-01-2014, 12:27 PM | #66 |
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My son still has his college email... Does that mean he can get Prime Student? What are the Perks? Mainly interested in Movies....
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02-01-2014, 12:28 PM | #67 |
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02-01-2014, 12:43 PM | #68 |
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Even a 20 dollar hike will be the end for me. I just don't order much physical stuff. Used to when our daughter was in diapers. Never use the free kindle library. Do most of my streaming off google and netflix since I got a chromecast.
Probably time for me to cancel whether or not the price changes. |
02-01-2014, 12:49 PM | #69 | |
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02-01-2014, 12:52 PM | #70 |
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02-01-2014, 01:09 PM | #71 |
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I see a poll coming along here soon...!
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02-01-2014, 01:26 PM | #72 |
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02-01-2014, 02:42 PM | #73 |
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Why prime?
I usually go for the standard free shipping (slower delivery) shipping. Making the threshold is not to difficult I want hard copies of Music and video, so I care less about the streaming or cloud (turned OFF on my K4's). Ship it to me. |
02-01-2014, 03:03 PM | #74 |
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No sir !
I will NOT post a poll this time. I've posted too many as it is.
Personally, I hope they wait for the increase until Drone Same Day deliveries are available (POSSIBLY Jan, 2015) and then have a Prime Air for $ 120. I'd go for that. Then folks could choose between Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime Air. Last edited by sirmaru; 02-01-2014 at 03:07 PM. |
02-01-2014, 03:13 PM | #75 |
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A 50% jump is indeed hefty, if that is what they do. They've even whittled away some of the perks of Prime shipping, by including many items as "Add-on" items that require being part of a minimum order even if you're a Prime member. Granted, ordering a $3 toothbrush and getting it delivered second-day air, tax free at the time, always seemed a little odd to me.
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